BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 12:14 PM

If the blue polish is on the middle toes, does that mean it's the middle of the woad?

WD, do you have another pair like it at home? A friend once knitted a pair for Pete Seeger. They were soon baptized when he did his frequent Captain Leadline bit.

Trevor, I am glad you have someone to rub your feet. It is a very good thing to give as well as receive.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 10:30 PM

why someone would wear legwarmers...if you were dressed up for work and wanted something easy to slip off once you got there..I guess to keep your legs warm..mg

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 11:06 PM

Oh, no Vince. I have had my share of nekkid until next year, thanks. The rest of you lot can have at, but I'm done for now.

And the sock thing...it's a hoot, Vince. Very funny!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 11:10 PM

No further comment. Just a note that this is post #53 on this rather silly thread topic. Who'da thunk it? Shall we go for 100?

Mudcat Cafe - Ya gotta love it!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 11:14 PM

Actually, it turned out to be #54 because Celtic Soul beat me to the submit button. But now it's 55....

unless it happens again.....

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: kendall
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 04:47 AM

with double posts, maybe it will.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Biskit
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:31 PM

Well! I ain't NEVER! ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: michaelr
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 04:14 PM

Right now on the radio, as I read the thread title: "Socks and sandals, socks and sandals... that's what I wear... as I hold on to your love handles... socks and sandals ain't rock'n'roll..."

Serendipity-doo-dah!
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 04:54 PM

Silly Thread Race Update

"Why do men wear socks with sandals?" with 59 posts is trailing "Do people steal toilet paper?" with 62 posts.
Who'll get to the magic 100 post level first?

Show your support! Post to your favorite!

REMEMBER: No gratuitous refreshes and no double posts!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 21 Aug 02 - 12:41 PM

I s'pose black sandals and black socks could look quite sexy?

Naaah.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,Mimsey
Date: 21 Aug 02 - 01:25 PM

I swore off panythose twenty years ago, and have been wearing legwarmers in the winter ever since. I have them in many colors, to complement my wardrobe. And they're SO much warmer than those !@##$ pantyhose. I am a legwarmer supporter!

Mimsey

PS and I wear socks and Birks sandals with 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,Madman
Date: 21 Aug 02 - 04:25 PM

It's a naked thing

Streakers wear shoes because it makes them feel clothed

Naked feet make people feel vunerable

I.e you could walk home naked with shoes & not suffer, but not the other way round (unless you've got hard feet)

Also there's the Sarah Ferguson philosophy but that's on the X channel

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Aug 02 - 06:17 PM

I had to wear sandal at school and I ain't worn 'em since AND I AIN'T GONNA NOW, OK?
Anyway I ain't never seen red ones
but if I did wear (hypothetical) red sandals I would wear red socks - 'cos I don't feel red toenails look just don't good on a man.
see ya at Bridgnorth without any sandals

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,Just Amy
Date: 21 Aug 02 - 06:37 PM

My hubby has the ugliest feet (as does everyone in his family) and I don't let him wear sandals at all.

I have always wanted to know the answer to this thread but I would qualify it: Why do men wear dress socks with their sandals? I understand why you would wear ragg (cotton or wool) socks with your Birks and sport socks with active sandals and even white socks with fisherman's sandals, but those dress socks. ugh!

Just Amy (dues paying member of the fashion police)

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Aug 02 - 08:34 PM

i used to wear sandals/sandles-are they the kind with handles? 9(portable?00)- but walking over wet grass then dusty streets then sweaty pub sessions made my dogs smell awful 9(even though it had no nose!- other peepol did]

these days what i find good for cool ft no pong is boat shoes with/without socks.

mr ed, i'll be wearing bloo boat shoes at bridgenorth-i've aslo seen them in red

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 22 Aug 02 - 04:09 PM

I'll have my sandals on with painted toe nails at Bridgnorth (UK). Do come and have a look!

Tee Hee

Sally

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 10:41 AM

Just to cause mischief I'm asking this again since "Zummer iz a cummin in, an' winter's (goin') gone away, oh"

#8-D

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Col K
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 11:30 AM

Trust you to stir things up again Sally, and here was me thinking that you were becoming quieter now that there is a brighter future singing its way towards you.
Who cares anyway, does it matter, all down to personal preference.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: artbrooks
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 01:53 PM

Same answer.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 01:59 PM

Agree with Art, Col and many others above. It doesn't matter a jot. You are the one with a problem here, Mrs Lemon.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: JudeL
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 02:11 PM

Mrs L in answer to your "why the blue toenails?" : you know who, told me the year before last, that the blue toenails started with a wedding in Australia, where several of the men on the groom's side had their toenails painted blue and he decided he rather liked it, & yes he did turn up for Sidmouth "wimmin's night" with them painted. Blue toenail's was then added to the list of fines that year.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Kim C
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 05:17 PM

Men wear socks with sandals 'cause their toes is ugly. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 07:01 PM

"...In the summer they flock
To the beaches and docks
With their brown vinyl sandals
And black nylon socks..."

                         Winnebay-come, Winnebago
                         (Jon Campbell)

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 08:27 PM

Because they don't want you to know about the dirty engine oil that's under their nails... ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: anais
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 10:09 PM

oh, lord, those british men in their shorts,
black socks and birkenstocks. i thinks its
rather cute.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Troll
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 12:59 AM

Socks?

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 05:10 AM

Oh, Guest E, I haven't got a problem, well maybe I have...keeping the smile off my face!

You do what you like if it makes you happy, after all that's why we are all different. Imagine if we all wore socks with our sandals, naked toes would be scarey!

#8-D

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 06:12 AM

I see I have a couple of brethren here.........I don't wear either....ever. I only wear socks when wearing boots (and those are boot socks) and I haven't had a pair of sandals since I was maybe 5. If I had a pair of sandals, I need socks to cover them up after I shit on them. Why buy part of a shoe? Generally you wear holes in shoes but with sandals they come that way! Go tell the store you want your money back. They're kinda' like those really popular "mule-style" tennis shoes without a back above the heel......Tell the store you got screwed and demand a refund.

Socks? I figure there are several billion mismatched ones in the world......many belonging to Karen and the kids........Why add to this tragic tale of abandonment and loss? Actually, I just hate the way they feel and I got out of the habit.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 06:57 AM

I sometimes wear sandals to work in the summer. I can only get away with it if I wear socks. It's most unfair because the same rule is not applied to female staff.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,ivor biggin
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 08:23 AM

You sad bastards!! I dont know who to feel the most sorry? for the sock sporting chinese seaboot wearers or the sans sock same.We are on the brink of a world catastrophe,famine in the etheopia,cliff richard adding another wrinkle to his haggerd, raggerd, smug features, and all you sad, beige, ewan mcoll lovi'n motha's can bleat about this shit.

I am burning my clogs,hammered dulcimer, belt and pint mug and all my spinners albums in protest.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,hugh jampton
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 08:29 AM

Hurrah biggin!!

'bout time some one got of the godamn fence and give these smug folkies some stick!!!! 'specially like the mcall comment.
sandles, socks forsooth! a small critism,shouldnt it be "is this shit?"

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Jim Colbert
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 12:15 PM

Oh, what the hell, I'll jump in too.

I don't wear socks with sandals, but I know folks that do for two reasons: gnarly toenails (fungus); and the sandals make their feet sweat a lot more without the wicking action of cotton socks and they smell bad!

And yeah, world catastrophe... I feel pretty much powerless about that. SO why not sock-talk?

jim

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 01:59 PM

GUEST,hugh jampton + GUEST,ivor biggin... what a sad pair you two are, that is if you are two. Me thinks you may be one big saddo. Well at least you Trolls have a names now!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 02:11 PM

Ivor and Hugh. Go Ahead, it's your property and your money. Just don't tell us how to run our thread. Go start your own.

By the Bye, it's about comfort, not fashion.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,Big Toe
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 03:30 PM

Might as well ask why women wear tops with bikinis. Always someone wants to spoil the fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Kim C
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 03:36 PM

Spaw, you obviously never had a pair of handmade socks, from a nice yummy soft yarn. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: vectis
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 08:27 PM

Perhaps it stops the sandals rubbing the feet raw when the wearer walks some distance in their sandals.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 08:33 PM

do u need 2 wear a collar & tie wi' yer sandals?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 09:25 PM

This is Jenn, actually. Sometimes warm socks and sandals are right for the weather of the day is all. Our daughter knew a bus driver in Tucson who knitted his own sandal socks, and they were gorgeous, she said.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: Troll
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 09:43 PM

I only wear socks (with my dress shoes) to funerals and the like and I only wear shoes when I'm forced to. I do wear boots when I'm riding the bike. But no socks.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,hugh jampton
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 01:46 AM

This is no troll asshole.this is for real,unlike you people.

I dont know who hugh jampton is but he seems to me to be the only one out there wuth a tither of sense and humour,and can recognise a wind up fron afar.

Saddo? maybe,but at least I don't take myself to seriously as you lot appear to do.

get a life you sad, sad, sad, people.This one could be a little to short.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,ivor biggin
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 02:59 AM

I dont know who Ivor biggin is but the same goes for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 07:49 AM

I reckon they are the same person, and he/she is trying to wind us up. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 08:19 AM

Hey Jenny........But doncha' really have to get a big laugh out of it? I mean if this fool thinks we are "sad and have no life" for running a thread like this, just think how much worse things have to be for someone who is trolling a thread like this!!!! Hey if we're pathetic, that's got to be "Pathetic Squared!"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 08:54 AM

Why do wimmen wear knickers when wearing long skirts, can't all have dandruff??
Oh shit, I'm in trouble now!
DARFC.....Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 09:05 AM

'Spaw, I agree! I'm having fun. Sock-it-to-me!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: fiddler
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 09:14 AM

Oh why oh why and oh why again.

I'm with the insummer none at work - I carry shoes for meetings and the rest of the time depends on rain snow and temp.

Any yes guys and gals we are all sad b*st*rds but happy smiling s*d b*st*rds who take time out to peruse such a thrilling and important thread!!!!

I was told a number of times if ever I turned up in Sandals with Socks she'd leave me! I now have the ultimate weapon ;-))

But then Dms and New Rocks rule really!!!!

*Grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: greg stephens
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 09:35 AM

Well I can give a technical answer to this. Till couple of years back I never wore socks with sandals, having read that this would make me sexually unattractive( I never actually did any serious research comparing success rate with or without socks, I just believed what I read).
   Anyway, then I decided to get involved in self-building a wooden house. Come the summer we were on teh woo work stage, and the big heavy stuff was done, so I ditched the steel-toed boots and moved into sandals. After on eday of walking about with sawdust between my bare feet and the sandal-soles, and with the cracks of my toes full of sweaty sawdust and opther detritus, I made the move to socks and sandals. And found them the ideal summer wear in conditions containing sawdust, sand, scattering grandpa's ashes, anthrax powder or anything similar.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,ivor hampton
Date: 27 Feb 03 - 01:44 AM

Duuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! really, jenny o, first prize you have just justified every thing I/we have said about you lot of pretentious thicko's.

Pathetic squared eh! Spaw, you really have got to get with the programme -I guess you are from thicksville,er I mean hicksville arkansas,do you all miss the point out there,or was you bullied at school?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do men wear socks with sandals
From: GUEST,Ivor biggerone
Date: 27 Feb 03 - 01:52 AM

sad sad sad sadder!!!!!!!